TechniSat Air2PC-ATSC-PCI

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There are actually two different PCI card revisions that were produced by TechniSat that bear the same Air2PC-ATSC-PCI name. Both Air2PC models are well supported under Linux. These are older cards (circa 2001 ? and 2004 ?) that are no longer manufactured, and are superseded by the presently offered |AirStar-HD5000-PCI model.

The origianl card was based upon the B2C2 reference design known as the "Air2PC ATSC PCI". TechniSat does not list this ATSC model on their own website's product pages (they only list the model's DVB-T counterpart, the AirStar 2 PCI). Rather, one finds information about these ATSC cards on the BBTI website (TechniSat's source for North American sales and distribution). Evidently, instead of marketing the cards using TechinSat's "*Stars" product lineup nomenclature, BBTI elected to use a B2C2 naming scheme.


Air2PC-ATSC-PCI (1st rev)

This oldest revision was used the B2C2 FlexCop2 or FlexCop2b PCI interface chipset with a Broadcom 3510 demodulator (which is visible on the face of the card's PCB).

You will often find this revision for sale on eBay, and in many cases being sold by BBTI themselves (see the notice on their webpage for further details).


Air2PC-ATSC-PCI (2nd rev)

The newer of the two revisions also used the B2C2 FlexCop2 or FlexCop2b PCI interface chipset, but was updated with a Samsung NIM that featured the Nxt2002 demodulator.


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